Quotes About Fulfillment

She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment

aunque se deseara con impaciencia, un acontecimiento no traía consigo, al producirse, toda la satisfacción esperada.

The promise, therefore, was given, and must be performed.

She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

He had caught both substance and shadow — both fortune and affection, and was just the happy man he ought to be.

I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine. Fortune I do not want; employment I do not want; consequence I do not want.

I must endeavour to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

dinero sólo puede dar felicidad allí donde no hay ninguna otra cosa que pueda darla. Más allá de un buen pasar, no puede dar real satisfacción, por lo menos en lo que se refiere al ser más íntimo.

En los buenos tiempos, nadie tenía un temperamento más alegre que el de ella o poseía en mayor grado esa optimista expectativa de felicidad que es la felicidad misma.

Strange that it would!" cried Marianne. "What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" "Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness

I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

I know he will make you happy, but you will make him everything.

it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely.

it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Y aunque no fue demasiado feliz en este mundo, encontró en el cumplimiento de sus deberes, en sus amigos y en sus hijos motivos suficientes para amar la vida y para no abandonarla con indiferencia cuando le llegó la hora.

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen is to do pretty well;